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  1. So we can add Miss Shilling's invention to such key items as filling the void in naval aviation fuel tanks with carbon dioxide and the folding entrenching tool in the museum of "Minor seeming things that made a HUGE difference to the war"
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  2.  @gooser__43  It is something I learned about in regards the Naval conflict in the Pacific in WW2. To preface, a (non-bladder style) fuel tank, unless completely full, has some amount of non-fuel space. All petroleum fuels will fill empty spaces with partial vapor. The lighter the fuel, the more volatile/explosive/combustible the vapor is. Okay, so Japanese ships were letting oxygen-containing air combine with the vapor in fuel tanks on board their ships, while the US navy had a "new technology" of producing CO2 on-board as a firefighting substance, and they also used it to displace the oxygen-containing air in their fuel tanks. So when battle damage happened aboard each nation's ships, the US ships would resist fires in the fuel, while Japanese fuel tanks were fire hazards. This allowed carriers like the USS Yorktown to be hit, catch on fire, put the fires out, and after repairs, keep going. Meanwhile fires on board Japanese carriers in the same battle led to lost ships.
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